As reported in today’s The Telegraph, a sikh teenager who was excluded from school after refusing to take off a religious bangle has won her discrimination case at the High Court.
Sarika Watkins-Singh, 14, was reprimanded for breaking the “no jewellery” rule at Aberdare Girls’ School in South Wales last year.
In court, she said wearing the [...]

Stephen “dogshit” Green, who I mentioned in an earlier post having lost his private suit against the BBC et al for ‘blasphemy’ and was considering bankrupty has set up a petition to try to shame the BBC into waiving the costs he was ordered to pay by the court.
Another petition has since arisen against his [...]

It’s struck me that, as a secularist, I should be concerned with the current crisis within the anglican church, even though it seems at first glance to be simply a tiff between members of the same club who disagree about the rules as set down by a long absent founder. Which, frankly, it is.
My [...]

Litigious christian wingnut and gobshite Stephen ‘dogshit’ Green of Christian Voice faces possible bankruptcy after failing to pay the costs of the defendants in the private blasphemy case he brought against the director general of the BBC for the screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera and the producer of that same show.
In a “press release” [...]

Since the news that a muslim that had applied to be interviewed for a job as a hair stylist cum model didn’t get the job (because she was unable to do it and lived too far away) and then took the prospective employer to a tribunal for “religious discimination” and was awarded £4,000, I’ve been [...]

In a stunning case of political correctness gone horribly mad and special treatment for (obviously “moral”) god botherers, it seems that there is a “case” whereby imprisoned sex offenders who adhere to a certain flavour of magical thinking may be allowed to opt out of treatment for their crimes.
The treatment programme seemingly entails a period [...]

Christian Voice’s civil blasphemy case appeal against the BBC over it’s screening of Jerry Springer:The Opera has, thankfully, been once again dismissed by the UK courts.
It’s not all good news though. The BBC reports:
However, the two senior judges at the High Court said the 1968 Theatres Act prevented any prosecution for blasphemy in relation [...]

The BBC has just reported that the British teacher at the centre of the Mohammed-named-teddy stupidity, Gillian Gibbons, has been pardoned by the Sudanese president al-Bashir after a meeting with two British muslim peers.
While I’m sure this will be seen in some circles (e.g. those of an islamic and/or political bent) as the Sudanese government [...]

Yeah, you read that right…
I really have no comment to make on this story, apart from a great big
What The Fuck?
A British teacher has been arrested in Sudan for letting her children name a teddy bear Mohammed, the British Embassy said.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was detained on Sunday on suspicion of insulting Islam’s prophet.
The [...]

As reported by Reuters in this Yahoo! News article, the hearing for the privately brought blasphemy case against the BBC for its screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera has wound-up, with a ruling expected at a later date.
The Yahoo! article writes about the arguments used to bring the case:
[Jon] Thoday is the producer of musical [...]

Stephen “Dogshit” Green of Christian Voice is launching a private prosecution in the High Court in an attempt to sue the BBC for blasphemy for it’s screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera.
Green first launched his legal application for special treatment for supposed offence caused in 2005, but it was turned down at the time by [...]

UK citizens: if you haven’t done so, why not take a couple of moments out of your day to sign the Number 10 petition to get rid of the UK’s blasphemy laws (deadline to sign up by: 8 March 2008).
Further reading: Appendix 3 of the First Report of the Select Committee on Religious Offences in [...]

The Bishop of London has welcomed a review of uniform policy by British Airways in the wake of a row over a worker ordered to stop wearing a cross.
Great. So another god-botherer is now sticking their nose into something that essentially is a private/commercial matter.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s PM programme, the Bishop of [...]

A Muslim classroom assistant suspended by a school for wearing a veil in lessons has been sacked.
Aishah Azmi, 23, was asked to remove the veil after the Church of England school in Dewsbury, West Yorks, said pupils found it hard to understand her.
More at BBC News
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